Program
- BREAKFAST & CHECK IN
8:00-8:45 AM - NEW FACULTY INTRODUCTIONS
Thomas Montine, MD, PhD
8:45-9:00 AM - INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIR OF THE RESEACH COMMITTEE
Scott Boyd, MD
9:00-9:01 AM - KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Stephen Galli, MD
"Figuring out why we have Mast Cells"
9:01-9:45 AM - GALLI AWARD INTRODUCTION
9:46-9:50 AM - SPECIAL GUEST AND WINNER OF THE GALLI PRIZE
Zachary Walsh, MD, PhD
"Dissecting the Human Immune 'Variome'"
9:50-10:05 AM - BREAK
10:05-10:30 AM - RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
(12 minute talks with 3 minutes of Q&A) - Muharrem Yunce, MD
"The Practice Patterns of Plasma Exchange and Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Thoracic Transplants"
10:30-10:45 AM - Edgar Engleman, MD
"Identifying the Mechanism Responsible for Peripheral Immune Tolerance and Blocking it for the Treatment of Cancer"
10:45-11:00 AM - Christoph Thaiss, PhD
"Body-brain Interactions: A New Frontier in Biomedicine"
11:00-11:15 AM - Birgitt Schuele, MD
"Stories of Neurodegeneration: Fieldwork, Gene Therapy, and Resilience"
11:15-11:30 PM - Jody E. Hooper, MD
"Brave New World: The Autopsy as a Tool of Cutting-Edge Research"
11:30-11:45 AM - Jonathan T.C. Liu, PhD
"Non-destructive 3D Pathology and Analysis for Optimizing Treatments"
11:45 AM -12:00 PM - WHITLOCK PRIZE AWARDS
Suchitra Pandey, MD
12:00-12:05 PM - LUNCH IS SERVED
12:05-1:00 PM - *FLASH TALKS
1:00-1:50 PM - BREAK
1:50-2:20 PM - POSTER SESSION 1
2:20-3:20 PM - POSTER SESSION 2
3:20-4:20 PM - RETREAT WRAP-UP/RETREAT AWARDS AND CLOSING REMARKS
Thomas Montine, MD, PhD
4:20-5:00 PM